Yelizaveta Smith Read Bio Collapse
Yelizaveta Smith was born in Odessa, Ukraine and graduated from National University of Theatre and Cinema in Kyiv as a film director. In 2014, she co-founded the film company Tabor Production. After the Ukrainian revolution in 2014, she started volunteer work with children in Mykolaivka in the Donbass region, a town partly destroyed by the war. This was a starting point for her film School #3, which premiered at Berlinale 2017 and received the Grand Prix of the Generation 14plus program. Her primary interest is documentary theatre. Smith is a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy and the European Film Academy.